As I pointed out in the previous post, there is a lot of investment in the Digital Transformation area and more is expected throughout this decade. One area, not unexpected, where investment is going is the IT, Information Technology, in its various forms. Indeed, if we are looking at the …
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The Metaverse is clearly inflated by a strong hype and this is not surprising. Actually, it is what happens to most new technologies that “need”to generate an hype to harvest investment funds. This connects directly to a growing number of startups entering this area. If you are interested in monitoring …
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The quest for creating an olfactory sensation goes back at least 25 years. The problem was not to create odors, aromas with any degree of accuracy, rather to make them credible and fitting the situation. The approach to create a specific whiff is not rocket science. Chemistry has provided us …
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6. Dubai – Metaverse as biz Dubai set up a “Dubai Metaverse Strategy” aiming to be one of the top world economic centres based on Metaverse. By 2030 the goal is to support 40,000 jobs and attract 1,000 companies focussing on Blockchain and Metaverse technologies, adding 4 billion $ to …
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4. Tokyo – Street Digital Twins On yesterday post I mentioned “Urban Digital Twins”, as they are called in New York by Columbia University to refer to the use of Digital Twins in a urban environment. Today we go to the other side of the planet and meet “Street Digital …
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There is no doubt that Metaverse exploded from a seldom used word to the talk of the town, courtesy of … Meta, I would say, in the last year. As shown in the graphic, the Metaverse is rooted in the past, at least some of its components were alreadt around …
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Enabling the Industrial Metaverse – Computational Power Industry has embedded processing powers in all its area and a factory today has -most likely- more processing power that the most powerful supercomputer, if we add up all the number crunching chips disseminated on the shop-floor, not to mention the one contained …
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Enabling the Industrial Metaverse – Connectivity structure I already addressed the crucial technologies that are needed in the operation of the Industrial Metaverse. Let me now take a more system wide perspective, starting with the connectivity structure of the Metaverse. Although we already have several concrete examples of industrial Metaverse …
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Industrial Metaverse – Executable Digital Twins for Siemesstadt Square A crucial aspect, as I mentioned in previous post, of an industrial metaverse is its usability by people. We already have plenty of tools that allows industry to do simulation, manufacturing with the support of software. You input a set of …
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Technology as the evolution fuel There are, as it can be expected, plenty of technologies that (will) power the metaverse. The most crucial ones, as I see it -and looking forward your comments on this!- are: Augmented / Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence – ML/Gen. AI Digital Twins Blockchain / NFT …
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